PHP Only Sending To One Email

[tomyknoker]

Hi all... I have the following

mail($to, "Membership Status", $msg, 'From: '.$from); 

And then have this in the $to

$to = "domain1@email.com, domain2@email.com, domain3@email.com, domain4@email.com, domain5@email.com"; 

It's only sending to the first email... But in the email that get's sent to the first email address I can see all those email addresses in the to field... Any ideas?

[ItsMeOnly]

I'd rather suspect your mail transport rather than PHP. What system are you on , what are your SMTP settings (and what software have you been using to send mail)?

[tomyknoker]

I'm sending it through the server, it's a PHP page... Are you asking what software the server is running? It's a Windows IIS server...

[ItsMeOnly]

I'm sending it through the server[...]It's a Windows IIS server...

And that can be the problem:
from PHP manual:

The Windows implementation of mail() differs in many ways from the Unix implementation.[...] a MTA is needed listening on a network socket.[...] to parameter should not be an address in the form of "Something <someone@example.com>". The mail command may not parse this properly while talking with the MTA.

Therefore you need to check if your MTA, that receives the mail doesn't actually bounce it in the first place.

[Ron_Hickey]

while ($to = "domain1@email.com, domain2@email.com, domain3@email.com, domain4@email.com, domain5@email.com";)
 {
 
mail($to, "Membership Status", $msg, 'From: '.$from); 
} 

[djr33]

Hmm... I don't think that would do it.

Using a while and running through each, splitting at a comma might.

But that will run infinitely, since $to will continuously assume the value of the string, without any factors changing.

[thetestingsite]

Try this:

<?php

// All of the email addresses the message needs to be sent to
$addresses = Array('me@domain.com','you@domain.com','test@example.com','email@website.com');

//the subject of the message
$subject = 'Test Email';

//The body of the message
$msg = <<<HERE
This is the test email message. Change me to what you want the email to say
HERE;

foreach ($addresses as $to) {
 mail($to, $subject, $msg, 'From: PHP Script <noreply@domain.com>');
}
?>

Hope this helps.

[djr33]

You could replace the first thing with this and make it easier to write:

$addresses = explode(', ', 'me@domain.com, you@domain.com, test@example.com, email@web.com'); 

[tomyknoker]

Guys thanks for the help... I'll give it a goadn keep you posted...

[djr33]

Oh, oops. It should be ', ' not just ','
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